Another compelling installment in the best-selling Millennium trilogy.

Margaret Silf on taking time to reflect and absorb the living presence in wood, trees, and forests.

Stephen K. Spyker on the impact the information revolution has on our lives and spiritual communities.

This July 4, let's celebrate our interdependence. When you reflect on your personal freedom you can't help but see the interdependence of life. We depend on people. Lots of people.

Henri J. M. Nouwen on serving our neighbor as a manifestation and celebration of our service to God.

Donna Schaper's nine principles on how to live well while doing good.

Mary C. Earle on staying faithfully with whatever new life is being hatched within us.

Celeste Snowber on skipping as a posture of play and prayer.

A cogent explanation by Judith Warner on how a lack of regulation in the U.S. has resulted in a culture of excess and individually in a widespread lack of self-control.

A wonderful documentary about two young talented black ballet dancers from working-class families and the yearning that propels them.

A documentary revealing the diversity of talent and subject matter in the wide world of films.

Daphne Rose Kingma on the importance of the spiritual practice of kindness.

A world-weary college professor hobbled by grief and confused about his own future discovers the joy and pleasure of small things and magic moments.

How friendship and neighborliness are changing in this age of social networking.

Susan K. Rowland on seeing beauty in the clearing away of clutter that steals our time and drains our energy.

Praise and gratitude to the sacred waters . . .

A drama about grief, creativity, and the supernatural as expressed in the lives of a volunteer at a literary festival and a novelist who writes about ghosts.

An extraordinary film by Swedish director Jan Troell about a poor working-class mother of seven who keeps her soul alive through nurturing her talent as a photographer.

A fascinating documentary about the amazing rollercoaster ride of Jim Morrison and the Doors who tried to break on through to the other side.

Our choices of the spiritual books of 2010 that best explore the quest for meaning and purpose, wholeness and healing, commitment and community, contemplation and social activism.